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News & ArtsWednesday, November 16, 2011
Animals / Visual Art Today in Raccoons
Posted by Kelly O on Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:10 PM
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The larger question, I guess, is...
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I hate raccoons so, so much. They always turn my camping trips into hellish experiences with their hissing and their clawing and their wet chewing noises. Filthy fucking beasts, and I'd love to see them all exterminated.
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@1: I am a vegetarian animal-lover, but I hate raccoons beyond all logic, too. True story: one night I woke to a loud knocking on my sleeping-porch window, about 6' from my bed. This is on the second floor of my house. Turned a flashlight on it, and there was one of the vermin pounding on my window-glass à la Benji Braddock at the church...I was just waiting for it to shout "Elaine, Elaine, Elaine!!!"
Those things are evil bastards.
Those things are evil bastards.
4
Raccoons are cool. Way cooler city dwellers than squirrels or pigeons. They're cool. They'll fuck up your cat, they'll fuck up your garden, they'll fuck up your whole shit. They have street smarts and that "I don't give a fuck" look.
Anti-raccoon? You're soft.
Anti-raccoon? You're soft.
6
I'm with @4. Hell, country raccoons killed all our chickens when I was a wee lad. They had to disassemble the hasp on the door to get in to the coop. You gotta respect them, plus they're cute. They're like cats with a few extra intelligence points and thumbs.
8
I think the camping raccoons knew about your raccoon hate and so they showed up to show you a thing or too, #1.
Raccoons lounge and nap on my deck. I flipped on the light and there was one laying on his back and he sat up and looked at me over his chubby belly. Then he laid back down and stretched leisurely. Very cute.
Raccoons lounge and nap on my deck. I flipped on the light and there was one laying on his back and he sat up and looked at me over his chubby belly. Then he laid back down and stretched leisurely. Very cute.
9
There was a rabid raccoon in my front yard last week. I did what any sane person would do: I went out and played with it, taking pictures!
10
Raccoons are like ninjas just as crows are like the yakuza. I suppose that makes dogs samurai and cats ronin.
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@9: If you had a rabid raccoon in your yard, it would not be sane at all to play with it! Rabid means "has rabies", and rabies will kill you.
12
my mother just told me a story this morning about the three that live in her yard. "now the babies are almost as big as the mama!" she said. then we talked for a while about how much we both love raccoons. she used to put stuff out to draw them to our porch - melons and such. i think she still does, but these ones showed up without lures. raccoons = awesome.
13
Spokane has plenty of raccoons. Also some skunks. Oddly, though, the only time I have ever seen raccoons or skunks was in Boston. (not an outlying area, either: the skunk was in Brookline and the raccoons were on Beacon Hill.)
14
My dog love raccoons, loves to catch one in the backyard every six month or so and tear the shit out of it. Then he watches happily out the window as I euthanize the mortally wounded raccoon by beating it to death with a shovel. The last one started seizing after the first wack and took six more before it went still. I know, sounds glamorous, but in actuality it fucking sucked.
16
We used to use beer-baited slug traps, until the racoons found them. Try waking up to drunk racoons fighting under your window at 2am.
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@13- Boston had a ridiculous skunk problem, all summer long you could smell skunk (real skunk, not skunky weed) floating around.
Go through the UW campus late at night in the summer after a rain, you'll see raccoons pulling up worms from the grass.
Go through the UW campus late at night in the summer after a rain, you'll see raccoons pulling up worms from the grass.
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There was an entry on BoingBoing yesterday (I think) regarding a woman who actually created one of these 'coon suits' and there was a photo.
20
total votes at this moment in time = 666! what is this poll trying to tell us about these raccoons!?
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